LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2018, 11 March 1890, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Arowhenua Town Board. The monthly meeting of this Board will be held to-morrow evening.

TehDIA RiFLES —A special gen-ral meeting of this corps will take place to-morrow evening, after the parade, to e'eot an officer in the place of Lieutenant White, resigned. Sale at Geraldine. Attention is directed to the sale of household furniture and effects, stock, etc., by Messrs J. VLundeP and Go., on account of the Rev. G. Barclay at Geraldine t,o-morrow.

Lunacy. —At the Resident Magistrate’s Court, Timaru, on Saturday last, Henry Quinney, about 36 or 40 years of age, was committed to Snnnyside as a d ingerous lunatic. He was very violent before and after arrest.

BiotcliE Rack. —A hicye'e race took place last evening between Messrs J. Henry and I. Bliaset. The course was from the Washdyke to Temuka, and B isaet was id owed five minutes start. Henry proved the winner by a short distance. Both riders got sever >1 falls. Gbraleine Poelic Sports. —ln another column we publish the handicaps for the forthcoming meeting of the Gera’dine Public Sports Association. It will be seen that the number of entries received is very satisfactory. All other events not handicapped will be post entries. Land Hun*br.—Yesterday morning quite a large number of persons gathered at the Land Office in Timaru, before nine o’clock, eager to put in applications for some of the sections of Grown Lands in South Canterbury just opened for settlement. AH appeared anxious to secure soma of the land.

Cricket.—The annual match between Canterbury and Otago commenced at Dunedin on Friday and concluded on Saturday, the result being rather an easy win lor Otago. The scores were: Canterbury : First innings 71 ; second, 97. Otigo : First innings, 116 ; second, for two wickets, 53.

Gold. —A number of miners have left Dunedin for Coal Island, near Preservation Inlet. The prospectors who have been working there brought about 100 ounces of gold to Dunedin, and, this leaking out, a number of others have left for the place. The island is very small, but the prospectors are sanguine of tracing the lead to the mainland.

Sheep Brand Register. —At the last sitting of the Temuka Road Board It was decided to procure a copy of Thompson’s Sheep Brand Register. At first glance this seems an unnecessary addition to the several statute hooks, etc,, which form a Road Board Library, but it was considered that the work would be of some service to the settlors, who would have the opportunity of consulting the same during office hours. It would also be of use to the poundkeeper, who with very little trouble could complete a local register that would enable him to at once identify impounded stock. The book has been carefully compiled, and is of a most exhaustive character. Alleged CuUELxr. —Frederick Jones and Jane Lae was charged at the Southbridge Resident Magistrate’s (Jourt on Friday with ill-treating the woman’s two children, aged eight and six years. Jones pleaded not guilty. Lee admitted having beaten the boy, but denied beating the girh Dr Withers deposed that both children bore marks of very severe beating about the body, and the boy had a scalp wound. Other evidence was to the effect that the prisoners had savagely beaten the ohiloren, and had also severely beaten and neglected them in Dunedin. Jones stated that he was away from Sonthbridge when the alleged cruelty was committed. The case was adjourned for a week. Personal. The Leinster Advertiser of January 22nd records the death of Sir John Blunden, Baronet, of Blunden Castle, Kilkenny, who died on January 17|h at the Castle at the ripe ige of' 75 years. Our contemporary says;—“The Blunden family can boast of a lineage and a history of which every member of it may well be proud, and the brief outline from authentic records show the h gh esteem in which former generations of the family were held, both in the county and city of Kilkenny, and also in the Senate, at the Bar, and in the military service of Great Britain. Many mambers of this family attained high distinction and renown. The late Sir John Blundell is succeeded in the title and estate by his eldest son, William, M. 8., 8.A., L.R.C.S.I. L.M.K.Q.C.P. The new baronet is at present residing at Temuka, Canterbury, N.Z.” I n/r ARRIBD W T Oman's Grievances.— NMrs Partington, of Sawyers Bay, in a letter to the Star on servant girls asking that their hours may be regulated, says ; I think, air, that we—the married —should be considered as well. 1 have . to rise at five o’clock and get my husbuid’s i breakfast before lie goes to work in the morning, and even “in this enlightened age,’ on ray feet all day, as I have a large family ; and then at night qp tjjl eleven o clock mending, etc., f or the children, after w..ich the baby generally keeps me awake most of the other part of the night j so I hope the Commission woot stop at servants. 1 don’t exactly know where they mean to atop, but I hope, with “ that " some person more able than myself will fcaka this matter into consideration,” and that we—the married women— will be included in the enquiry.

Rahway Passenger Rates.—A correspondent, signing himself " Advance New Zealand," writes os follows to the Otago D .ily Times Sir,—The success of the reduced railway passenger rates to exhibition visitors, is, to say the least, instructive. Presumably, the exhibition will not now be closed before the end of April. Could not the exhibition ba made the ostensible occasion of the Railway Commissioners making a grand experiment in passenger rates, which would give them experience without restricting their freedom of action when the ostensible occasion of the experiment has ceased to exist? My suggestion is that a month at least before the exhibition closes passenger rates should be reduced uniformly all over the colony to a farthing a mile second class, and half as much more first class; no return tickets to be issued, but the full single fare charged each nay; and no fraction of a penny to be taken in charging for a ticket. This would not only prove whether immensely reduced rates would promote the welfare of the colony, and pay from a railway point of view, but also ensure a visit to the exhibition for thousands whom (he fares ut present reductions have not reached."

Crown Lands’ Guide. —Wa have to acknowledge receipt of Grown Linds’ Quida No. 10. It contii'is a mass of useful iufonnatioD, and can be seen Ly any of our subscribers on application. SPORTING.—Afc the Victorian Racing Club’s Autumn Meeting on Saturday (fourth day) the AH-Ag“d Stakes and Loch Plate, w.f.a., were won by Carbine, the Unplaced Stakes by Proh Pndor, Place Handicap by Tantallon, Steeplechase by Lawler, and Farewell Handicap by Tourbillon. Funeral Sermons. —On Sunday afternoon last the Presbyterian Church, Geraldine, was crowded to its utmost capacity, when the Rev. Geo. Barclay preached the funeral sermon of the late Angus Macdonald. The rev. gentleman preached a yery impressive and touching address from the words “So teach us to number our days that wa may apply our i hearts unto wisdom.” Very feeling re- 1 ference was made to the deceased gentle- 1 man, who had been intimate'y connected with the Presbyterian Church, Geraldine, for over 20 years.—At St. Saviour’s Church, Temuka, on Sunday evening, the Rev. T. A. Hamilton delivered a very touching address, in which special reference was made to the . recent drowning accident. There was a very large congregation, all available seating space being occupied. Special hymns were selected for the occasion. Poisoning op a Child. At Timaru on Saturday last an inquest was held before C. A. Wray, Esq., coroner, and a, jury, on the body of a child 14 months old, named John Adams, the son of Henry and Margery Adams, living with Mr Meredith-Kaye. ;From the evidence giyen it appears that William Knight, coachman, some time ago obtained a quantity of scrub exterminator for Mr Kaye, which he stored in the feed house. It was not labelled poison, and he did not know that it was dangerous, so be took no special precautions about it. On Friday he took the child into the coachhouse to play, and had occasion to leave it for a tew minutes. On his return he found the child with its mouth and hands full of the exterminator. He got as much away from it as possible, and asked Mr Kaye if it was dangerous. Mr Kaye said he thought it was, and Knight ran with the child to its mother, asking her to give it an emetic. She gave it some mustard and water, and it vomited freely, and all haste was then made to Tiraaru, where antidotes were administered by Drs Reid and Lawson, but the child died during the afternoon. The jury found that the child was accidentally poisioned, and added that tradesmen selling such articles as “ Scrub Exterminator ” should be compelled to place some label or conspicuous mark upon them. Interest in Colonial Affairs.—The

Home News of January 17, hus the following under the heading of “The Growth of Interest in Ca'utiial Affurs”;—“ The

Daily Chron'clts yesterday morning started a new co'umn, which is, we may hope, r. of the times. This feature is to consist so'ely of colonial news, received by telegraph and mail, and will be called ‘ Greater Britain." Its first instalment is very comprehensive, dealing ns it- does with Canada, the Cape, Indii, Australasia, and other places in lha British domitions. Not long ago the Pall Mall GuzaUe introduced a weekly column cdled ‘ Our Kith and Kin.’’ The interest which has been taken at Home in colonial rffiirs, until quite recently, has been notoiiously t-ma'l. The Royal Colonial Institute and the Im-

porial Federation League have, together done a great deal to educite the English peop'e, and now ihe newspapers are beginning to respond lo the undoubtedly growing demand for colonial ne .vs. Unless

there were a demand, we may be pretty sure these columns would not have been Started, and we trust that ero long The Times and other papers wi 1 fo’low ihe lead of the Pall Mall and the Chronicle, and give more attention lo colonial aff i s

than they can possibly do in a half column, generally headed, ‘Foreign and Colon al Telegrams,”’ The Primacy. The trouble in connection with the Primacy question will probably remain ss it is until the end of this month, when the reaigna ion of B ; shop Harper takes effec'. The plan i ropoeed by the Bishop of Auckland was that the Bishop of Nelson should res'gn to the Bishop of Auckland, who in turn would resign to the Bishop of We ! - lington. A difficulty has been pointed out by “ C.W.” in the last number of the Church News, through the construe ion of the canons, which it was thought would prevent the Bishop of Auck'aud’s plan from bung carried out, But this difficulty, we are informed, will be removed out of the way when Ihe resignation of the senior bishop, who is Bishop Harper, takes effect on the 31st of the present month. If after that the proposed plan be carried out, as it is expected it will be, the Bishop of Wellington, acting upon advice, will resign the Primacy. Then the B'shops will sail upon the Bishop of Nelson to convene a special session of the General Synod. The position which the Primacy question has now reached wll not affect Ihe proposed meeting of the Standing Committee called tor Thursday next. The Committee will meet to strengthen as far as they can the hands of the bishops, and also to ask the Bishop of Wellington,, for the peace of the Church, lo resign the Primacy. It i 3 al ao understood that the consecration of Archdeicon Julius cannot take place until after the meeting of the General Synod —Press.

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